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BY MAX O'RELL AND JACK AXJjYN.
Translated by Mme. Paul -filouet. Copyrighted by Cassell & Co., New York.
We Publish the Following Extracts from this Book by Special Ar
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Paul Blonet (Max O'Rell) is a remarkably clever Frenchman, who ho devoted hit tal
ents mdrtly to satirizing the Anglo-Saxon race. He has become widely known as the author
of "John Boll Ann His Island," "John Dull, Jr.," Etc This book is his latest pro
duction, the material for it being gathered during his recent visit to America,
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. CHAPTER XXXIX. -.
Hotels are one of the strongest attractions
In America to Americans, especially the
ladies, ;
When we Europeans travel, we alight at a
hotel, because it is impossible that we should
have a pitching place of our own- In each
town we visit, or friends able to receive .us;
in other words, we go to the hotel, because
we cannot help It. When we leave our good
bed and table, and set out to see the world a
little, "we say to ourselves! "The worst of it is
that we shall have to livto in hotels perhaps
for a month or two; but, after all, it 'cannot
be helped we must put op with hotels since
we have made up our minds to see Switzer
land, or Scotland, or Italy." Our object In
traveling is to see new countries, make pleas
ant excursions, climb mountains, etc,, and to?
attain that object we must use the hotels as a
convenience, as a sad necessity. v
In Europe, the hotel is a means to an end. .
In America, it Is the end. ..
People travel hundreds, nay thousands of
miles for the pleasure of patting up at certain
hotels. Listen to their conversation and you
will-find that it mainly turns, not upon the
fine views the have discovered, or the ex
cursions and walks they have enjoyed, but
upon the respective 'nerits of the various
hotels they have put up at. Hotels are for
them what cathedrals, monuments and the
beauties of nature are for us.
In February, 1883, I went to see the Ameri
cans take their pleasure In Florida. '.During
the months of January, February and March
flocks of society people from the towns in the
north go to.. Florida where the sun Is warm
and the orange trees are In full beauty of
fruit and flower. Jacksonville and St, Au
gustine are in winter what Saratoga, New
port and Long Branch are in summer, the
rendezvous of all who have any pretensions
to a place in the fashionable world.
But what do they do at Jacksonville and
St. Augustine, all these Americans In search
of a "good timef Toll think perhaps that,
In the. morning, they set olt la great numbers
to make long excursions Into the country or
on the water; that picnics, riding parties and
such out of door pastimes are organized.
Not so. They get up, breakfast, and make
for the balconies or piazzas of the hotels,
there to rock themselves two or three hours
In rocking chairs until lunch' time; after this
they return to their rocking chairs again and
wait for dinner. Dinner over, tbey go to the
drawing room, where there are more rocking
chairs, and chat or listen to an orchestra
Immense; like everything that is American.''
The temperature of Florida In winter is
ranaly lower than 64 degs., and ranges from
thotto 75; bat the climate is moist and ener
vating, the country a vast marsh, so flat that
by standing on a chair one could seo to the ex
tremities of It with the aid of a good field
glass. Some enterprising American should
throw np a bill down there; ho would make
his fortune, Every one would go and see it.
It is not everybody who can afford the
luxury of the Ponce de Leon hotel, bat it Is
everybody who likes to be seen there In the
season.
Ton mast bo able to say when you return
to the north that yon have been at the Ponce
de Leon, This is how it can be managed.
Yon go to some other hotel near the Ponce.
In the evening, dressed in all your diamonds,
you glide into the court yard of the great
caravansary.- Another step takes you to the
immense rotunda where the concert is going
on. You stroll through the sajoons and cor
ridors, and, taking a seat where you can be
seen of the multitude, you listen to the musio,
About 10 or tl o'clock you beat a retreat and
return to your own hotel. Wishing to set
my mind at rest on this matter, I went one
evening,, about half past 9, totheCasa Monica
and Florida house.. There, in the rooms
where the musicians engaged by the proprie
tors play every evening, were at the most
score of people.
Everything is on a grand scale in good
American hotels, especially the bills.
I caught the following bit of conversation
at - the St. Augustine station as I was leavo
ingt ;-" , , v
"Hello! you are off,, toor said a young
man to a friend who bad just Installed his
wife In the train for Jacksonville.
"My dear fellow, I have been here a fort
night; the Ponce de Leon is -magnificent, but
the bill is awfully stiff.
: "Never mind, old man." retained the other.
"you will coke It off your wife's next dress
money.
With few exceptions, the waiters la all the
great hotels are negroes. You are served
slowly, but with intelligence and politeness.
No "duchesses" in the great cities of the
north or the fashionable resorts of the sooth.
. Those good negroes have such cheerful,
open fucesl Tbey seem so glad to be alive,
and tbey look so good natured that it does
one good to see them. When they look at
one another tbey laugh. : When you look at
them they laugh. It a negro sees another
negro more black than himself he is de-
smaller towns where those young persons
wait at table also. In the bast hotels their
only duty is to koep the bedrooms tidy. You
must not ask any service of thum beyond
that If you desire anything brought to
your bedroom, you ring, and a negro comes
to answer the bell and receive your order.
I remember having one day insulted one of
these women certainly unintentionally, but
the crlmo was none the less abominable for
that . :
This was it, .; .
: I was dressing to go out to dinner, and
wanted some bot water to shave with, ' Hav
ing rung three times and received no answer,
I grow impatient andopened.thedoor, in the
hope of seeing some servant who would be
obliging enough to fotch me the water in
question. A chambermaid was passing my
door, i " ::.!... ,
"Could you please get mo some hot water T
Isold. .
"What do yon sayf" was the reply, accom
panied by a frown and a look of oon tempt.
"Would you be so good as to got me some
hot water!" I timidly repeated.
"What do you think I am? Haven't yon a
bell hi yonr roomf said the harpy.
' And she passed along Indignant.
I withdrew into my room In fear and trem
bling, and for a few minutes was half afraid
of receiving a request to quit the hotel im
mediately. ."'"
I shaved with cold water that day.
CHAPTER XL.
If yon go to a changer, he will give you five
francs in French money, or four shillings hi
English, for a dollar. But in America, you
are not long in discovering that you get for
your dollar bat the worth of a shilling in
English money, or a frano in French.
The flat that lets for 4,000 francs In Paris,
and the bouse that Is rented at 300, or 4,000
shillings in London, would be charged $4,000
In New York, Boston or Chicago.
The simplest kind of dress, one for which a
Parisian of modest tastes pays 100 francs,
would cost on American lady at least f 100.
A visiting dress costing 500 franos in Paris
would cost 500 in New York. A bonnet
that would be charged 50 francs is worth
50. The rest to match.
Here Is a dressmaker's bill which fell under
my eyes In New Yorki :
Robe de chambre
Cloth drew. .
Opera cloak....
Riding habit
Bonnet...
Theatre bonoec.,
Black silk areas..
Ball dress
$200
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virons the little town of Jacksonville has, for
instancel For miles around stretches a villa
dotted orange grove.
And the table d'hote I
In France we look well at the bill and
study it; we discuss the dishes, arranging
them discreetly and artistically in the mind
before making their acquaintance more fully
on the palate. We are gourmets. In America
the question seems to be not, " Which of these
dishes will go well together P but, "How
many of them Can I manage!" " It Is so much
a day: the moderate eaters pay for the glut
tons. You see women come down at 8 to break
fast in silk attire, and decked In diamonds.
And what a breakfast 1 First an orange and
a banana to freshen the mouth and whet the
appetite; then fish, bacon and eggs, or ome
let, beefsteak or chop with fried potatoes,
hominy cakes, and preserves.
"How little yon eat, you French people I"
said an American to me one day, as I was or
dering my breakfast of cafe au lait and bread
and butter.
"You are mistaken," I sold, "only wo do
not care for our dinner at 8 o'clock in the
morning." '
The larger the hotel is the better the Amer
icans like lb A little, quiet, well kept hotel,
where, the cookery being done for twenty or
thirty persons instead of a thousand, the beef
has not the same taste as mutton; a hotel
where you are known and called by yonr
name, where you are not simply No. 678 like
a convict; this kind of pitching place does
not attract the American. He must have
something large, enormous, immense. He is
Inclined to Judge everything by its size.
JacksonvUle and SI Augustine boast a
score of hotels, each capable of accommodat
ing from six hundred to a thousand gnesta
These hotels are full from the beginning of
January to the end of March.
4 have almost always accepted with riser re
the American superlatives, followed by the
traditional "la the world,'" but it may safely
be said that the Ponce de Leon hotel, at St.
Augustine, is not only the largest and hand
somest hotel in America, but in the whole
world. Standing in the prettiest part of the
picturesque little town, this Moorish palaoev
with iU walls of onyx, its vast, artistically
furnished saloons, Ha orange walks, foun
tains, cloisters and towers, is a revelation, t
scaoe fson the "Arabian Nights." .
Hers the Americans cuugiegate in search of
a "good time," as tbey call it. Tbe charges
range from ten to twenty Ore dollars a day
far each person, exclusive of wines and ex
tras. Tbe American who goes to the Ponce
de Leon with his wife and daughters, there
fore, sjicDds from one to two hundred dollars
a day. For this sum, he and his family are
tod, played to by a very ordinary bawl, and
supplied with an immense choice of rocking
chain. . On his return to New York, be de
clares to hi friends that be has bad a "lovely
time." The American never admits that be
bos been bored, la America specially. Tbe
tUi&ilo4 hicMeiiU cf the trip are events and
adventures, and B never foils to have his
"p od time." He is as easily pleased as a
ch:'.d ; verytbin; American ca.'!s ont bis ad-
ui w.or at l-xuA ti Interest. Prmrk to
. i. f r iijarre, tVit to gr by traia to
i i f : fr-a t'. tvirti one has to trard
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eyes that show the whites so, when they roll
them In their own droll fashion; tbe two
rows of white teeth constantly on viow,
framed In thick retrousse lips; the swaying
manner of walking, with turned out toes
and head thrown back; the musical voice,
sweet hut sonorous, and so pleasing compared
to the horrible twang of tbe lower class peo
ple in tbe north, all make up a picturesque
whole. You forget the color and fall to ad
miring them.
And bow amusing they are!
At the Everett hotel, Jacksonville, I one
day went to the wrong table.
"You've come to de wrong table, sah," sold
the attendant darky. Then. Indicating tbe
negro who served at the next table, be added:
Dat's de gentleman dat waits on you, sah.
1 immediately recognized my "gentleman;
and changed my seat ' Tbe fact is that all
the negroes are alike at a glance. It requires
as much perspicacity to tell one from another
as it does to distinguish one French gendarme
from another French gendarme.
I never met with such memories as some of
those darkles have.
As I have said, tbe hotels of Florida are be
sieged during the winter months. . At dinner
time, you may see from six hundred to a thou
sand people at tablet Tbe black bead waiter
knows each of tbe guest The second time
they enter the dining room, he conducts tbem
to their places without making a mistake in
one instance. If you step but a day, you
may return a month after, aad not only trill
be reeolkel your face, but be will be able to
teu yon which Utile table yon sat at, and
which place at that table was yours.
At tbe door of tb dining room a young
negro of 16 or 18 takes your bat and puts it
on a bat rack. I nave seen hundreds thus la
his care at a time. You leave the dining
room and, without a moment's hesitation, he
singles out your bat and hands U to you. It
Is wonderful when one thinks of It. 1 give
yon the problem to scire. Several hundred
men, most of whom you have not seen more
than once or twice before, pass into a room,
handing you their chimney pots or wide
awakes to take care of. Tbey come out of
tbe room in no sort of order, and yon bars to
give each the bat that belongs to bum, I
have tried bard aad of tta, but never succeed
ed in finding oat bow U is dona
Another negro in the ball goes and gels
yonr key when be sees you return from a
walk. No need to tell him tbe Bomber of
yonr roombe knows lb He may bsw e sera
yoa but once before, but that is aUsufBciaot
And the negresseel rood, saerry looking
creatuies with buxom faces aad forme, sup
pla, light, graceful gait and slender sraiste,
aping tbe fashion, and having nry pretty
fashions of their own, coquetting and mine
big. as tbey walk out- with their "tlclajV
drth-ulars. The en Jnymexrt of Hfe is writ
ten on their faces, sod one ends by thinking
some of them quite pnetty. I bars seen arxne
splendid figures siuoott tlwm. You should
sas tbem on Sundays dreewd la srarb-t or
some other bright coLr, with great bats
Jauuty turned np on as sUc, and fanning
tbemseiTee with tbe ease six I grace of t-vl-
graviaii bdiea '
N.TTWM are OiA eni.Lrtd as ctjuritrr
m.'i to birt-.-Jk. ir.yyftj t.in-rruvi.;
cm i.tj."'. an 1 cf - . " 1 ! ' t ' :.i
III--- f t ; it ' - ' - - '
Total..... ,...$A0
In this bill, there is neither mantle, linen,
boots, shoes, gloves, lace, nor the thousand
little requisites of a woman's toilet, and It
is but one out - of the three or four bills for
the year. 1 am 'convinced that an American
woman, who pretends to the least elegance,
must spend, if. she be a good manager, from
$6,000 to $8,000 a year. Add to this the fact
that she loads herself with diamonds and
precious stones.' But these, of course, have
not to be renewed every three months.
A great number of Americans coino to Eu
rope to pass three months of every year.
This is not an additional extravagance; It is
an economy. Tbey buy their dress for a year,
and tbe money tbey save by tills plan not
only pays their traveling expenses but leaves
tbem a nice little surplus In cash.
A hotel bedroom on tbe fourth floor, for
which you would pay five franca a day, Is $i)
hi tbe good hotels of tbe principal towns of
America. A 'cab which costs you ono frano
and a half in France, or one shilling and six
pence in England, costs you a dollar and a
half In New York. Tbe proportion' is always
kept. '
Tbe dollar has not more value than this In
tbe lesser towns of the United State The
omnibus, for Instance, which takes you to tbe
station from your hotel fur sixpence (or half
a shilling) hi England, and for half a frano hi
France, costs vou half a dollar in America,
Copper money exists In America, but If you
were to offer a cent to a beggar he would
fling It at you In disgust. When tbe bare
footed urchins in tbe south beg their formula
La: "Spare us a nickel," or "Chuck us a
nickel, guv'nor." The nickel Is worth five
ceuta The only use of tbe cent that I could
discover was to buy tbe evening paper.
Tbe only things cheap In the States are
native oysters, and English or French books
that have been translated Into American.
It a-r-penses are enormous hi tbe (Jutted
States 1 must hasten to add that It Is chiefly
the foreign visitor who suffer in purse. The
American can' afford to pay high pricxe, be
cause his receipts are for larger than tLey
would be in Europe. Situations bringing in
three or four hundred dollars, as in France in
England, are unknown In America. Bank
clerks and shop assistants command salariok
of a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars a
year, a railway ear conductor gets Ut a
month.
In tbe grades above in tbe professions, the
fees, compared with thme earned hi Europe,
are also to the proportion of the dollar to the
shilling or franc. A newspaper article for
which would be paid In Franos from 100 to
850 francs (and ao French paper, except Tbe
Figaro, pays so much for artieles) Is paid for
in America from $100 to $250, ' A doctor is
paid from $3 to $10 a visit. I am, of course,
not speaking of specialists and fashionable
doctors; their charges are fabulous. I know
banisters who makeover $100,000 a year.
Every one Is well paid la tbe United States,
except tbe vice president
If Ibavespokeaof the blgb east of living.
It Is to state a fart and out to make a eoro
plaint I weot to AoMrica as a Uctorer, not
a tourist Jonathan paid me wcIL and
when cabby a-ad me for a dollar ant a half
to take me to a lecture ball, I said, like U.
Joanpb Pruflbomraet "It is expensive, but I
afford it, "and I paid without grumbling
CHAPTER XLL
"Well, dr, aad wbat do yoa think of
Azqerirar
Witbuat pretending to Jud- America ex
cathedra, f will asm op the tni-TwInns jot
ted down in this litfle volume, and r-ly to
the (rs-litiouai question of tbe A-nrrirana,
Whoa one thinks of what the AnwrVoas
bars dune in ahuuiired ynars of JnoV-;-oIt
H.'a. it look as tf notliin-; ought to le hiipos-
arts and sciences, while the social condition
of Its nations does not Improve, she will bo
to America what barbarism Is toclvllizatloa
While tho Uohenzollerus, the ilnpshurgs
and tbe Flrebrandenburgs review their
troops; while her standing armies are cost
ing Europe more than $1,000,000,000 a year,
In' time of peace; whilst tbe . European
debt is more than $35,000,000,000. the Ameri
can treasury at Washington, In spite of cor
ruption, wblcfi it Is well known does exist,
has a surplus of $00,000,000. Whilst Euro
pean governmenta cudgel their wits to devise
means for mooting the expenses of absolute
monarohlos, tho Washington government U
at a loss to know what to do with tho monoy
it bos In bond. ' Whilst tho European tele
grams in the dally papers give accounts of
reviews, mobilizations and military maneu
vers, of speeches In which the people ryp
reminded that their duty hi to serve their
.emperor Qi-st and their country afterwards,
of blasphemous prayers in which God Is
asked to bless soldiers, swords and gunpow
der, tbe American ' telegrams announce the
price of corn and cattle and the quotations
on tbe American stock exchange. ,
' . Happy country that can got into a state of
ebullition over a presidential election, or tbe
doings of John L. Sullivan, while Europe hi
trembling asks hersolf, with tho return of
each new spring whether two or three mill
ions of her sons will not bo called upon to cut
each other's throats for the great glory of'
three emperors In scorch of excltomentl
: America is not only a great nation, geo
graphically specking.
' The Americans aro a groat peoplo, holding
in then- bands their own destiny, learning
day by day, with tbe help of their liberty, to
govern themselves more and moro wisely,
and able, thanks to the profound security In
which they live, to consecrate all their talents
and all their energy to the arta of peace. '
The well read, well bred American Is tho
most delightful of men; good society In
America is the wittiest, most gonial and most
hospitable 1 have met with.
But the more 1 tray)! aad the more I look
at other nations, the moro confirmed 1 am In
my opinion that the French are the happiest
people on earth. ,
The American hi certainly on the road to
the possession of all that can contribute to
tho well bouig and success of a nation, but be
seems to me to have missed the path that
loads to real happineea His domestio Joys
are more shadowy than , roaL To live in a
whirl is not to live well.
Jonathan himself sometimes has bis regrets
at finding himself drawn hi to such a frantlo
race, but declares that if bj out of bis power
to bang back. If It were given to man to
live twice on f bis planet, 1 should understand
but living bis first term a i'Americabie, so as
to be able to enjoy quietly, In his second ex
istence, the fruit of his toll in tbe first See
ing that only one sojourn here Is permitted
us, I think tho French are right In their study
to moke ft a long and happy one.
If the French could arrive at a steady
form of government,-anil live In security,
tbey would be the most enviably happy peo
ple on earth. -
It Is often charged against the Americans
that they are given to bragging. May not
men who have done marvels be permitted a
certain amount of self glurifhvtionl
It is said, too, that their eccentricity, con
stantly leads tbem. Into folly and license, .Is
It not better to have tbe liberty to err than
to be compelled to run straight in leash I If
they occasionally vote like children, they wIU
learn frith ago. It is by voting that people
learn to vote.
Is there any country In Europe In which
morals aro better regulated, work better
paid, or education wider spread! Is there a
country where you con find such, natural
riches, and such energy to turn tbem to ao-
count; to many people with a consciousness
of their own intellectual and moral force; so
many schools, whore tbe child of the million
aire and tbe child of tbe poor man study side
by side; so many libraries, where tbe boy in
rags may read tbe history of bis country,
and be fired by tbe exploits of Us peroosl
Can you name a country with so many
learned societies, so many newspapers, so
many charitable institutions, or so much
widespread comfort!
M. Renan, wishing to turn himself Into a
prophet of 111 omen, one day predicted that,
It Franos continued republican, she would
become a second America,
May nothing worse befall her I
TUB 1X0, " ,
The Wise Hen ef Legos.
Onco, upon, a fjreat foolivaV tho
town council of Lagoa went to tha
parish chufeh to hour nulsu. And all
tho motnberaof tho council were
dressed, in seemly stuto in black coats
arid tigut black trouaers and flowin-'
cloaks, and each wow a wido brimmed
but cf block felt, over which a feather
gallantly curled, 1 for their comfort a
leather covered bctsc'li was placed be-
L foro tho chancel rail. - And whert thoy
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e-.uiio tu sil, tuicu muii, in toe urucr ii
his dignity, sat down upon tbe bench
find placed ber.ido him his hat. Dut
whou six of tho twelve councilors
wore seated the bench was full. Theu
a whispered conference was held, and
it was decided that the bench must
bo streU-'hcd. So six of thein took hold
cf ono end and tho other six took hold
of tho other end, nnd they pulled
hard. Then they camoto-sit again.
And now tho tirst councilor put his
hut beneath (he bench, and the second
did likewise, and so did they all. And
they all in comfort snt down lv
which they knew that they had sulli
ciently stretched. the bench.
Being thus seated tho first councilor
crossed his right leg over his left leg,
and so did the second councilor, and
so did they all. But -When camo the
time in tho moss when all must rise
not one of the councilors could tell
certainly , which two of tho twenty
four legs woro his, for all were clad
in tight m black trousers and all were
crossed. And each man looked at tho
many legs among which were his
own, and sorrowfully wondered if ho
ever should know his own legs among
so many and bo bo ablo to riso and
walk. And while they thus pondered
it fell out that tho first councilor was
bitten by a flea llorccly in his rearward
parts. And tho Qrst councilor slapped
at tho flea, and that ho might slap tho
better uncrossed his legs. Then the
second councilor knew which wcro his
Iocs, and so did tho third, and so did
LthoyalL And so they 'all uncrossed
1.1.-7-. i I i .t.i-i-.-i
uieir legs, unci w iui yrcai uiunaiui
ncsa aroso. Scribncr's Magazino.
LIGHT AND EHADOY.
tto light e'er sh iocs trtthout its ghadov rn-Alng
, A Kiomxi oA drop and durfc the other vny.
Ho earthly beaxn can make toi force so tahUmr
But that the olglit tcay shroud its Cadiog cay.
. Tbe Alpha ami Omega.
There are 803 letters in tbe Tartario alpba
bstand twelve hi that used In the Sandwich
Utoads, These are tbe numerical sxtivaue,
fesl Every where
Ouiflrm our statement when we say
that Acker's English Ilemedy Is in
every way stiperior to any and all
other preparations for the Throat snd
LfUDgs. lo Whooping Cough and CrouD
it la tnagici and rrlivea at once. We
Verbatim.
Poubtlcss many people who indulge
In warmth, of language would be
greatly surprised if they could see a
verbatim rcnort of their conversation.
In "Undo Sam's Medal of Honor, "
tho following story is told of Cow
Ilarnoy, who, in 1(533, was stationed
"at Key Biscay no:
Tho lighthouse had been burned,
and the keeper's family massacred by
tho Indians, the year before, and Ilai"
ncy ono day bethought himself that
tho lighthouse should bo rebuilt.
. "Sir. Ban ndem," ho said to a young
ofllecr, "that lighthouse ought to be
rebuilt. Whoso duty is it, amoug
those follows in Washington !"
"Tho secretary of the treasury has
chargoof all the lighthouses, I bcliovo,
said Haunders.
"Well, writo a letter to tho secre
tary, coufouud him, and tell him tho
jighthouso ought to bo rebuilt. Tell
liioi it ought to have been rebuilt long
ago. Toll tho idiot that if ho will give
me tho authority, I will rebuild it my
self." "But thcro is no stono here."
"Toll tho fool to send to Boston for
thoetona Have you finished? Iicadid
Saunders read pi-cciselv what his su
perior had dictated.. Not a single
syllable hutl been omitted. As Horace
Greeley used tosay, tho letter furnish
ed "mighty interesting reading." but,
So human Joy without Its shaded
To siiread as wide aad deep Its withering biy .f.
Tbe fullest pleasures tinffes often barrow
Krom coniliij; grief, which darkens like tbe night
rTo'sounds of laughter, with their echoes waking
Tbe sunlight air In surges of delight;
Ihjt there are moans to show that hearts sre
breaking, ,
As If tlie transient folly to requited ; ,
The chandelier can oerer In Its (rlowtng
IJht up the splendor of the hails of pride,'
But that the tallow dip Is faintly showing " ,
fhe ghastly squalor where the poor reside,' t
At tho first dawn of the creation
The evening and the morning mado the day:
Bo thro the world, In svery rank and station,
Tbe light aad shadow bold alternate sway.
Here, tho' the shades their somber palli are cast."
tag,
We should not droop er farter thro despair.
Here, tho' the frost tbe sweetest buds are blasn'
. Ing, .
Their sliadows come not, for no night to there. ,
Kin. William King In Atlanta CuosUtutiua i
A Bath of State.
, Tho queen of Madagascar has fJakori'
her yearly bath. This annual clean
ing up was observed with great pomp.
The French papers report that tho
queen was clothed all in scarloi and
seated upon a red ret ret throne-, a cor'
nor of tho room was railed off with red
curtains and .behind this was rolled a
groat bath tub set on wheels. A sol
emn procession filed tlirough, bcaring
the water for the bath, materials for the
Gre to heat it, made directly under the
bath tub itself, the towels, soap, per-'
fume and various toilet appurtenances.
As soon as' the water was sufficiently
heated tho fire was put out, prayers
wore said and a hymn sung imploring'
!... !. . m. r T, . m
DUU. U1U ,1 Llt.t .1 1 BUILITr III. I J 11 1 1 1 . 1,1)111
her daring act, and then, as sho dis-'
appeared behind tho curtain, a salvo of
artillery was fired and tho drums beat
to announce to tho excited multitudes'
outside that the important part of tho
ceremony was taking place. At tbe
end of a brief fifteen, minutes the'
queen reappeared, somewhat paler in
hue, but gorgeously arrayed and wear
ing all tho crown jewels. In her band
sho carried an ox horn, tipped and
bound with silver, full of water taken
from the bath just previous to her en
trance to it. Bearing this and accom
panied by the prime minister, she
marched- to tho palace portal, where
sho dipped a branch into the water
and spriuklcd tho spectators as thcV
Pass along, which gave them the satis
faction of feeling that they have in a
rocasuro shared ill tho dangers which
tho queen as the head of the nation'
had-boldly confronted. New Yorlc
Telegram. - " . (
'A Ccorgla Silver Mine. ' :. '
Many years ago wheto the red men
roamed over the forest of Georgia
there was in the piny woods above
Tazewell a silver mine. The location
of this mino was known only to the'
Indians. They worked it .for some"
time and brought the silver to Buena
Vista to sell to a man who was in the
mercantile business, but whose name'
has been forgotton. After a time they
ceased to bring it, and the merchant,
upon inquiry .learned that the water
had.iuunduted the mine in such away
03 to prevent further work, lie fur-'
nixhed Ihctn with pumps of somo kind,-
wuen .nicy again brought him silver.
altogether pleased.
companion.
with jUYouth's
This Soake Drauk Wlilskr.
A correspondent near ' Hamilton,
Marion county , sends the following:
"Mr. Owen Hutch, who keens a small
grocery ttoro in this neighborhood,
con' vouch for tho truth of. this. Mr.
Hatch soils liquor as well as family
groceries. Keeping only a small stock;
of liquor on hand ho keeps most of it
I trio weti ino morciiant otrercd $4,000
to any ono who would discover the
mino. After many fruitless attempts
tho search was gi ven up by all except'
ono man, who discovered the location"
cf tho mino several years afterward ,
by tho dirt work and the old pieces of
pump. Tho gentleman, from some
causo or other, was unable to pur-'
chaso tho property at the time, and it'
owueu uy an esuuo. tno neirs ol
is
which .have moved a war and left the'
iu jugs. Ono day last week a two gal- ' Property uncared for, nor do they'
Ion jug of com liquor was left stand- i Know anything of there having been
ingon tho floor behind the counter, silver found on tho place. Theloca-
Mr. Hatch stepped behind tho counter
and was surprised to see a largo black
buujiv iMjuuu aruunu uio juir wuu lis
head insido. Ho watched it for a mo
ment and soon - discovered that tho
snako was drinking liquor. It was not
disturbed, and after several minutes it
lion Is known to a few persons. It
also corroborates everything that has-1
been said about it Brooklyn Eagle. 1
f nm Tris-it lh - Itif nrwl foiin1 tliaL !
snako had drank more than a quart of
liquor. Two days later tho same
souko returned, and when it crawled
under tuo counter Sir. Hatch watched
it. Bv colli nff itself o round tho 1110-
and giving iu nock a twist around tho
stopper it was ablo to remove the cork.
offer ytu a sample free. Itemembcr, nu "K01" H1." aua1' aniJ.
lbi Remedy I- sold on a pcitlve guar' J?. dru,1?nor ll,.waa
.. r .... . I ir jlntiv ,l fill ,im,,t .It. wrtil,1. .
How to Enjoy a Cltptretta.
Cheap, hand mado cigarettes form a
BIiiW V llntVMliwl Itavlf I rrm i hA tur. anrl - .
,T iv I.V i you aro enjoying mom you let your
attempted to cm away, but was too , lind dffei f (n aB nxeri ou-
drunk, and strttched itself out ou the I tholr To u0 who know, 0lto,
uoor wuoro it rcnuunea apparently: ,,t i,.,Km.-.,i
Mr.. Ua!?u i redolent with associations, fop'
whenco havo been gathered the ma
terials? There is a tilrr-e volume novel
in every cigarette. What a splendid
excrciee in imagination it is to figure'
iu one's mind who the smokers were'
who contributed each a cigar end, or"
tho remains of a cigarette, or the
aulccft until next day.
entee by VA- K. Harden, druggist.
Tbe Kaaaae DrsHksprir.
An exchange sve that when a Kan
sas editor makes an auilvlt that he
saw a KraHhlu.i-por liuht down on the
bark ol a robin and lift him (wo feet
high hi ait effort to carry bin off. It is
simply ono Solitary instnnco of the
richnrsK of the mm I ol Hie Btst. Xrxt
year Ihey-nre going to lame the grass-
hoppes and learn bint lo hunt rats.
I'm t Ire ia ilka larr.
to drink its fill again, after which it
4 1 1 I r- r i . . t
was buuou. txinuiagiuun l-aoa.; Age.
A Dag lemarltaa.
My St. Bernard, named Is la, had a
friend in a dog that lived at a cafo.
llo met tho cafe dog in Lis walks and
took him with him, but for moro than
a yu&r his fricudship never went so
fur as to invito the cafo dog, which
was a pointer, into tho Louo. . Ono
"day. to my surprise, ho came from his
walk, bringing, tho pointer, whoso
nainowaaAnlotiio, la with hint, pushed
hu uoso on to my breakfast toLlo and
Diode mo understand that ho wished
to fcad his friend. Oa inquiry
i tounu umi we pointer was starving.
emptying of a Wpo for the jjamin to
dry and i'alo till it was ready to be a'
cigarctla again. Youth, beauty, fash
ion, ol.l ago vice and virtue may all
i linro smoU-d tho tobacco In its earlier
I form. It must be highly pleasing to'
I ooiisti'iirt n rrroupof shauowy smoker'
I for acquciutaincca. London Globe.
If you use ice In yonr iliv. don't
forget (bat il you are It get the b-s
results yoTt must ir the ici it bin fiv j Loviu' been a day or two before beat-
oilnutea of the titye I lie tnt k Cinc4, c:i r.nd kickod out at tho enfa for
rom the cow. IWt furpi i, e.il.t-r, L.-cii!2-&omo flower pots. It is cer-
Ihat the colli f ih J tc sllui.l I no bw I .i.i tbt I il i tnttit bnva Irrum-n of liia
sptli'd until the uiil! Is Uraimd ami j Uiina. for from that moment he mado '
m-I. ro e-Kil the iniU ami sitit t he Ar.lonw tt lioir.o in LU own houaa. t
piocrnvi rrpa-aiiun, nn.l un it Mia.n, k (Ju.oa la I ail ililr UOK-tlO.
lo throw away bulb ice and it. urn, j
I'v-ry mrS'h-r is c"i' i "I'd nzi f l
i f:-.t!ii her rSil I l.m i-.-.tttii ir
n:..j u Xhrn In tue future, con.Urrtjv2 tu ,. . ; .. n ..f,.r!.i ,
iiiwxaaiMib rtwmpn at tae tfi-ntto!i. j ., ,',,,.,!,..,;. !,:rli kill- IV n.i-.l at
Araarira hssbepa du-jbl-nx It. t;.-sh,l' ( (;,e t-l.it.l. A-kera Jt-.I.v n..t :r is
A sWUd Baok.
An -M fallow in a Vii.coni..'.,i town
wl.3 I.f i t.-oou running a priva'.a but
fr t-rr. ymr waswcciilly requ ;il
tD pjlll1-!! somo R--rtcf u BLitii'Vji.t. t?i
bo rootkl tho ff-ll iwinrc-ii tl.o r
A PslMtow
B.-nwit Well, Jones have you sue-'
cc-cdi.-i . in cajituring Miss Smith's'
Land, yt'tf
Jones Not exactly hor hand, but t
got tho next tiling to it, -
Brown Ah? '
Jones Yes. I got the mitten. De-'
troit i'reo iYwss. j
Wliat Uicy call a "tantrum" ox toAm,"
is not a r.iro spectacle in eartcrni
Maino. A Catnbndge trmn raked all
hu hay List summer with an ox 1 r
Ticiscd i:itoa s!riug tooth rak 1 i
drove t!io ox l.imst'if while tl" c'. 1
L:i' f..!':ued along behind, rnil.ir'r a
jvjKj liod to tho brakes lo work the t.
Ju!l fed and prrsrorou3 p
Bt'Vi'f uiidcr'.taii'l hui -roi J r
hut at'
t'.o ; -.
i .-
w.
1"
every twenty-five j--ar. If hnrv .
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